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The Atlantic Wash your hands, but lay off the other parts. Jack Davison In October, when the Canadian air starts drying out, the men flock to Sandy Skotnicki’s office. The men are itchy. Skotnicki studied microbiology before becoming an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Toronto. She has been practicing for 23 years, always with an eye to how the environment—including the microbial one on our skin—affects health. “I say to them, ‘How do you shower?’ ” she to...

Ketamine in Low Dose Reduces Pain: Study by Angela Mohan on  March 12, 2021 at 1:05 PM Academic Emergency Medicine. Ketamine is known to provide pain relief comparable to opioid medications, which are highly addictive. Researchers studied 98 patients, ages 18 to 59, who presented to the emergency department with acute, moderate to severe pain. The patients were randomized prospectively to receive either 0.15 mg/kg of ketamine (low dose) or 0.30 mg/kg (high dose). Patients and...

The Atlantic As Gloria Steinem said, “The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.” Hulton Archive / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic In July, Clare Wenham—and her daughter, Scarlett, and Scarlett’s picture of a unicorn—went viral. Wenham researches global health policy at the London School of Economics, and she was giving an interview to the BBC about Britain’s attempts to manage the coronavirus pandemic. But Scarlett had another press...

The Atlantic ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. For years, I was haunted by a fear of failure. I spent my early adulthood as a professional French hornist, playing in chamber-music ensembles and orchestras. Classical music is a perilous business, relying on absolute precision. Playing the French horn, prone as it is to missing notes, is a virtual high-wire act in every concert. I could go from hero to goat within a few mistakes during a solo. I...

The novel coronavirus is a long process that can go from mild to severe health conditions. Depending on the immunity of a person, COVID-19 can differ in its impact on different people. Similarly, post-COVID conditions, which has become a grave issue in recent times, have also taken a major toll on peoples lives.

The Atlantic The most concerning versions of the virus are not simply mutating—they’re mutating in similar ways. Simoul Alva For most of 2020, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 jumped from human to human, accumulating mutations at a steady rate of two per month—not especially impressive for a virus. These mutations have largely had little effect. But recently, three distinct versions of the virus seem to have independently converged on some of the same mutations, despite being thousand...